Mikkeller Monks Elixir

Tasted during the Nor Cal Beer Geek Tasting on 3/11/2009. This abbey quad pours a murky medium amber color from the bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head. The aroma is fruity, sweet, touch of caramel and some yeast. Medium bodied quad. Malts are fruity an dswet. Hops are spicy. Nice balance. Good carbonation. A big, sweet, fruity quad with a nice slightly dry finish. Hides the 10% alcohol very well. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is sweet with a touch of alcohol.

Bottle. Dark chocolate, fruits and styrian Golding hops in aroma. Unclear dark brown colour witj small light brown head. Intense, spicy and slight bitter flavour. Liquorice, apples and malts. A tribute to brewing in monasteries. Ora et labora et Mikkeller.

Bottle… mgumby10’s & hopscotch’s WtFFfFDotF Throwdown … Murky, dark caramel ale with millions of little white floaties and a small, creamy, off-white head. The nose is of cocoa nibs and dark fruits – raisons and dates. Full-bodied and lightly creamy with restrained carbonation. Sweet and bursting-at-the-seams with dates and figs. A little yeasty as well – reminiscent of Russian black bread. Sweet, breadsy finish. Thanks to mgumby10 for sharing the bottle!

Lovely Beer. Pours a dark brown with ruby opacities, a yellow, white head and a fast lace.Slight aroma of kiwi and fresh water. Sweet malt is apparent Stranger sweet malt, rimarkablily refreshing with strong bitt. Sweet malt flavor with mango and bitter spice, There is a depth set up between the bitter and broad malt profile. Caramel, very slight chocolate, with some bread. The finish is warm malt with bitter htat maintais its balance for some thime.

Pours classic dark brown with a foamy brown head which dissapears quite quickly. Aroma is yeasty, belgian sugar and malt. Taste is spicy, fruity and lots of yeast flavours, also banana, caramel, sugar, a little oaky. Finishes slightly thin, and with a fair ammount of alcohol. Very reminiscent of Bernardus 12. A good beer.

Pours dark brown, with a smallish off white head. Big dark fruit aroma, grapes and plums especially, with some candy sugar and sweet malt aromas. The flavor is pretty solid, although fairly standard for a quad. Not overly interesting or complex, but a nice sweet, malty, fruity, quad with proficiently masked alcohol burn. In fact thats probably its best trait, its alcohol masking abailities. Solid.

750ml corked bottle. BB 7/4/14 Pours a murky bronze body with a small but thick and persistant tan head. Nose seems a bit hoppier than most, citrus and herb, lots of rich vinous fruit; raisins, plums, dates, dark brown sugar, port and brandy-like alcohol presense. Has a slight mustiness surrounding it, which I could just be imagining. Thick rich body, as expected from a beer of this size, creamy near-velvet texture, moderate carbonation. Alcohols on the way down. Plenty of the aroma translates to the body; figs, plums, some citrus rind, dark cherries, bubblegum, brown sugar, port. Finishes somewhat dry and not as lengthy as I was hoping. Slight sharp citrusy bitterness to boot. A very nice Belgian dark strong, no doubt, though the alcohol isn’t that well hidden and it has a slight citric sharpness which probably puts it a rung below more authentic Belgian counterparts.

Bottle at the 09 Belgian Beer Fest. Chunky brown pour. Lots of floaters. brown sugar, dark fruit, plum, raisin, and bread. It’s alright, worth a try.